The Moon: Apollo: Where Is Its Poetry?

NOT since the tragic fire that killed three astronauts on the launch pad
in 1967 has NASA's morale been so low or its future so bleak. The signs
are all too apparent: shops are shuttered in Florida's once-booming
Brevard County, the home of Cape Kennedy. Thousands of engineers and
technicians are out of work in Southern California and other aerospace
centers. Last week, even as Apollo 15 streaked to the moon, Congress
sent the White House a compromise $3.27 billion NASA appropriations
bill$1.9 billion below the allocations of the space agency's
heyday.